Word: rigoletto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radio City Music Hall chorus, won the Metropolitan Auditions of the Air in 1938. A burly man (6 ft., 218 Ibs.), he restricts himself largely to Verdian roles. His big, mahogany-hued voice is unmatched by any other baritone in the world. He virtually owns the role of Rigoletto, both vocally and dramatically...
...greatest singer, Enrico Caruso, made his debut in Rigoletto in 1903, sang 607 performances of 36 operas in the next 17 seasons, and transformed the Met into a genuinely popular house. Soprano Geraldine Farrar, trailed by a worshipful female fan club of self-styled "gerryflappers," reigned with him. But Arturo Toscanini, with Gustav Mahler, the greatest of the Met's conductors, deftly cut his singers to size, and in only seven seasons changed the house from a kind of glorified star club into a smooth-functioning repertory theater. During one rehearsal, temperamental Soprano Farrar turned...
Warren appeared with the Bolshoi Theater Company in the title role of Verdi's Rigoletto, a part that he has made his own at the Met. Several of the Russian singers (who sang in Russian while Warren sang in Italian) came close to matching Warren in acting ability, but when he opened up his big voice, he dominated the stage. After his Act II aria, Cortigiani "oil razza, reported the New York Times's Howard Taubman, the Russians stopped the show with a spontaneous outburst. At the final curtain, they gave him a standing ovation. Warren is scheduled...
...Mickey Rooney brings his cultivated ham to Pinocchio. Maurice Evans will produce and star in Twelfth Night and Dial M for Murder for Hallmark Hall of Fame. Ex-Cinemoppet Shirley Temple acts as hostess and sometimes star of a new fairy-tale series, and NBC Opera Company will do Rigoletto, Die Meistersinger and Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites. Ed Wynn will get the first star-studded salute from Texaco Command Appearance, an hour-long series spotlighting big-time performers. Henry Saloman's Project 20 will do The Innocent Years (1900-14) and Back in the Thirties; James...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 1:45 p.m., ABC). Rigoletto...